In June 2026, the Curiosity microscope was aboard a sailboat on the St. Laurent river, where it was used by the team from the ISSEO mission (Initiative for a Sustainable Science of Oceanic Ecosystems) to image plankton.
The Curiosity microscope was at the Kerguelen Islands in May 2025 aboard the French polar patrol vessel L’Astrolabe as part of the Bougainville Mission.
Photos from yesterday's sailing aboard the R/V Tom Crean for the Ocean Literacy Postgraduate Training.
Anna Oddone and Noan Le Bescot spent two weeks in Dakar and then in Sine Saloum. They provided a batch of seven Curiosities to the Nebeday team, intended for the observation of plankton and they led educational workshops and trained local facilitators in their use.
The schooner Persévérance, a supply ship for the Polar Pod project of the doctor and explorer Jean-Louis Étienne, launched the participatory oceanology programme Plankton Planet in Antarctica, under the initiative of MEP Catherine Chabaud and biologist Colomban de Vargas. For the first time a Curiosity